Oral anticoagulants given to pregnant women cause
Correct Answer: Craniofacial malformation
Description: Contradi's syndrome (Skeletal and facial anomalies optic atrophy, microcephaly, chondrodysplasia punctate. Warfarin given in early pregnancy increases bih defects, specially skeletal abnormality foetal warfarin syndrome - hypoplasia of nose, eye socket hand bones, growth retardation. Given later in pregnancy - it can cause CNS defects, foetal haemorrhage, foetal death and accentuates neonatal hypoprothrombinemia Ref: Katzung 12 th ed.
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